Please take a moment to PERSONALIZE the following letter and click send. The more personalized you make the letter, the more impact it will have. (The action is limited to residents of Oregon). Thank you for continuing to stand up for clean water and wild salmon in Oregon.

Suction dredge mining has increased greatly in Oregon since California placed a moratorium on the practice a few years ago due to its harmful impacts on endangered salmon. Rivers like the Rogue, Illinois and South Umpqua have become ground zero for this destructive activity. Thanks in advance for taking action on this issue by encouraging your legislators to support SB 401 which would create state scenic waterway designations on a number of iconic, but threatened rivers segments in Oregon, and protect them from the harmful impacts of suction dredge mining. (This online action can only be taken by residents living in Oregon.)

California recently took action to ban this harmful practice. That has led to a new "gold rush" here in Oregon and other states in Cascadia. Iconic places like the Lower Rogue River, the Illinois River, and the South Umpqua River in Oregon have become ground zero for this activity. With salmon and steelhead populations struggling in Cascadia, it is important that this practice is banned elsewhere. Please add your name below and join with other anglers, conservationists, and recreationists in calling for the governors in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska to do everything in their power to encourage their legislatures, state agencies, and the federal entities operating within their states to take all possible legislative and enforcement actions to protect salmon and steelhead habitats from this unnecessary and destructive endeavor. 

Anti-wolf rhetoric—the kind practiced by Mr. Allen—is a form of biological bigotry. And like all bigotry his messaging relies on a framework of selective “facts” and innuendoes unsupported by broad experience and science. Please sign our petition because Aflac needs to hear from you so that it understands that these anti-wolf sentiments are out of step with prevailing science and the desires of the majority of their customer base. 

The BLM has a new chance to modernize resource planning in western Oregon to reflect the public desire to protect waterways, old forests and species on the brink of extinction, and to safeguard the incredible carbon storage capacity of these forests to mitigate climate change. Please take a moment to stand up for our heritage forests and personalize the letter below.

Please take a moment to contact Wallowa-Whitman National Forest officials and your elected officials and encourage them to proceed with a balanced plan for the forest that closes a significant amount of harmful backcountry road to motorized travel to enhance the environment.

In March, 2012, Representative Peter DeFazio, Greg Walden and Kurt Schrader released a draft of the O&C Trust, Conservation, and Jobs Act. The bill would split the 2.6 million acres of western Oregon BLM lands into a "timber trust" and a "conservation trust." The timber trust lands would be logged to raise revenue for Oregon's struggling counties. The BLM lands would loose all federal environmental protections and instead, would be clearcut under the rules of the "Oregon Forest Practices Act", the weakest requirements for private industrial forest land on the west coast.

The bill requires a “fiduciary trust” to produce the “maximum annual sustained revenues” to fund rural county governments. This means short-rotation, slick-it-off-clean clearcuts with only a 20’ no-cut riparian buffer on fish-bearing streams (0’ buffer on other streams). It means aerial spraying toxic herbicides on thousands of forest acres annually to kill any vegetation that interferes with maximum profits. It means we loose all federal protections for rare species, including the Spotted Owl, Coho Salmon, and Marbled Murrelet.

There are better solutions for counties than clearcutting public lands that are currently set-aside as reserves. Thank you in advance for letting Rep. DeFazio know you do not support liquidating up to one million acres of our public forestland and that you encourage more sensible ways forward for our counties.

Southern Oregon has been threatened with a natural as pipeline that needs a 100’ wide clearcut for 230 miles, taking private property through eminent domain, and taking the homes of our wildlife through corporate greed. The proposed pipeline will run from the Ruby pipeline near Klamath Falls, to the Pacific Ocean, near Coos Bay, and the site of a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal. The LNG developers consistently insisted they could condemn people’s land because importing LNG is in the public good. But on September 23, 2011, the bait-and-switch was official. The Energy Company’s applied for an export terminal at Coos Bay.

Either way, natural gas, especially natural gas that is liquefied (LNG) for transportation on ocean liners, has an unacceptable carbon-equivalent footprint, promoting climate change. Methane has 20 times more potent greenhouse gasses than carbon pollution from coal.

Exporting domestic natural gas would promote Fracking. Fracking has polluted ground water and family wells. Some people can even light the water from their faucets on fire. It is an environmentally damaging practice that has inadequate oversight from the government.

Exporting domestic natural gas would also increase our local gas prices at home because we would have to compete on the more expensive world market for natural gas. And it’s not very smart to export natural gas while we are still importing oil.

A coalition of impacted landowners and conservation groups, including Cascadia Wildlands, are challenging numerous permits, including several required by the State of Oregon. Join us in asking Oregon to do the right thing. 


The Energy Company claimed importing natural gas meet a public need, and now they claim exporting meets a public need too. What the public really needs is no more corporate profits gained from polluting our atmosphere with fossil fuels, and from condemning our neighbor’s private properties.

Please take a moment to personalize and send the below letter to Meg Mitchell, Supervisor of the Willamette National Forest, telling her that you would like to see the Trapper sale canceled and that the older forests of the McKenzie are best leveraged for their ability to store carbon and mitigate climate change, for purifying our drinking water, for recreational opportunities, and for fish and wildlife habitat.

Please ask the State Land Board to aggressively pursue a strategy on the Elliott that can generate critical school revenue without destroying endangered rainforests. Ecosystem services, including carbon storage, present new opportunities to generate revenue. Please use the form below to write to the State Land Board and encourage them to explore options other than clearcutting the Elliott.

Hunts in the Rocky Mountains have implications for wolf recovery in Oregon and Washington where wolves have been absent for decades. In 2005 Cascadia Wildlands helped pass a statewide wolf recovery plan that allowed for wolves to migrate into Oregon from Idaho and surrounding states to meet recovery goals. Robust, dispersing populations of wolves in the Rockies will be paramount in the recovery process in Oregon, where wolves were systematically exterminated through trapping, hunting and poisoning by the 1940s.